Category: Higher Education

I’m very pleased to be able to announce that the university’s Being Human Research Priority Area has awarded me a period of sabbatical leave for semester one 2017/18. The main focus of my work during this period will be to make substantive progress on a monograph I’m currently preparing that examines Soviet women’s everyday lives. … More Prof Melanie Ilic Goes on Sabbatical

This post is the winner of the Blog Post competition run by the History course at the University of Gloucestershire, and comes from undergraduate student at the University, Stephanie White. “I tell my story not because it’s unique, but because it’s not, it is the story of many girls.” The fight for woman and equality … More Women’s History Month: winning post on Malala Yousafzai

One hundred years ago today, on April 6th 1917, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve Woodrow Wilson’s call for a declaration of war against Germany to “make the world safe for democracy”. Although the United States was only directly involved in the First World War for a period of nineteen months, from 6 … More The USA and World War I

This post for Women’s History Month comes from Senja Andrejevic-Bullock, Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. The old adage that behind every great man is a great woman, seems to be true even for one of the greatest men of all times, Albert Einstein. Not many people know that Einstein was … More In the Shadow of Einstein

This post comes from second year undergraduate Jenna Pateman. As part of the level 5 module HM5050: Field Trip, I and 36 other Humanities students travelled to the city of Cordoba in Spain, staying within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the old city’s walls at Hotel Los Patios, just a stone’s throw from the … More History Students on Field Trip to Córdoba, Spain